[Suggestion] Global chat in game client

arcinex·Sep 22, 2016·1 votes·1,773 views

Will League of Legends ever have an in-game global chat?

The current version of clubs, chat groups, friend chat, is all too limiting and I know that LoL's social scene has greater potential. As of now the client is pretty much a 'queue up, play the game, repeat' kind of thing. Time constraints in game lobby, inefficent to type in chat whilst actively playing in game. Nowhere to chill, nowhere to chat, nowhere to kickback and have a nice conversation with the thousands upon thousands of people playing league of legends.

Outside of the game client there are sources to chat like these boards or on reddit. However I feel as though having a global chat implemented within the game client itself would be an awesome thing to have. For reference, look at old battle net games in Starcraft and Diablo 2 to get an idea of what I mean.

5 Comments

be pureSep 22, 20162 votes

The client can barely handle what its doing now, could imagine how terrible it would be trying run a chat room that supports millions of people lol...at the end of the day it is a game not a chat service

Inquisitor KaneSep 22, 20161 votes

Not sure if client and server can withstand millions of people in one chat room.
Go see any twitch chat with more than 100 people in it. It is unreadable because of the amount of trash that flows through (memes, kappas, lols, pointless things). Imho global chat would be a disaster

arcinexSep 22, 20161 votes

True

RónguSep 22, 20161 votes

I can understand an official server chat with like a max of 150 people with like 3 different chats to select from. But a global chat might be a bit of a stretch. And this might be me just being a bit ignorant, but the language barrier would just be a bit too much to handle. I am speaking from a total GLOBAL chat perspective. It just seems like a hassle to me.

arcinexSep 22, 20161 votes

Well the idea is to have a way to chat with anyone online through a global chat system similar to old battle net. Segmented by default channels (general discussion, looking for group, etc., ability to create your own channel, enabling moderator powers). This is just a broad suggestion I put out there.

Global in the sense that anybody can join a chat channel (multiple rooms available, can create your own) when online, not as in one singular global chat room.

As Inquisitor Kane notes, twitch chat is really cancerous and it will almost definitely transfer into my suggested chat channels idea. There is a counter to the problem and that is to block/suspend chat privileges from those kind of childish twitch spammers indefinitely, similar to how suspensions are given for breaking summoner's code, but remaining a separate entity from suspensions involving in-game reports.